Google graveyard: Google is known for its tendency to shut downward sites and services when it gets tired of maintaining them, and for ameliorate or worse, we're seeing that trend rear its ugly head again today. Google has officially shut down its first-party game development studio for Stadia and will shift its focus toward the technology behind the platform moving forward.

First, let's be entirely articulate: Stadia itself is not going anywhere -- not for the time being, anyway -- and so all of your games are however safe. Frankly, this news probably won't hateful anything to the platform's end users. However, it's a sad day for Stadia's first-party developers, who volition now be forced to find new jobs.

Google says "most" of the SG&E team (Stadia'south first-party studio) will exist moving on to new roles inside Google, but that doesn't do any good for the developers who want to piece of work on games, rather than software or deject streaming technology.

Google's decision was partially prompted, information technology seems, past gaming industry veteran Jade Raymond's deviation from the Stadia team. All the same, the rise cost of game development, every bit well as the many years it can accept to create best-in-class titles, also played a role in today's movement.

SG&Due east was a curt-lived experiment on Google'due south office, but its demise might be for the best. Whether you love or hate Stadia, there'due south a slightly amend take chances that the platform volition thrive now that Google isn't splitting upwards its resource unnecessarily.

Ane more clarifying indicate before we come to a close: Google volition all the same have Stadia-exclusive titles moving forward, they'll merely be coming from 3rd-party studios rather than the company itself. In other words, Google is taking on more of a publishing function, which makes much more sense given its limited experience in actual game production.

Google hints that any "near-term" planned games will nevertheless be releasing equally planned (probably to avert wasting resources), but we'll have to wait and see whether or not that will remain the case.